I am still getting the hang of how to work with this word press stuff. Maybe not how things are intended to be, but check out the Audio page for links to more of the Dancing Diaries and an interview I did in March.

I’m also started a myfolia account to keep track of my garden progress through this summer.

How much documentation does one life need?

The singersongwriter project is underway. I’ve interviewed four artists on their compositional techniques, transcribed two of these interviews, and I am hoping to finish editing them soon into something listenable soon. I am looking for cues as to what is being control for emotional effect, in particular how these musicians define what the music is communicating in relation and comparison to the lyrics.

The standard interview focuses on a single recently composed song. We discuss the piece’s beginnings, some of the compositional decisions, the meaning of the piece, how it came to be completed and what changes with performance considerations.

Around the dancing diaries, I haven’t had much extra editing time, but I’ve got hopes for the next few weeks.

I’ve just uploaded the third segment of this dancing diaries, so if anyone is a fan of Irish Ceili dancing and music, take a listen:

http://www.archive.org/details/MontrealDancingDiaries3TheCeili

This one ended up being 10 minutes, which means that I am getting faster at the editing process, though, of course, I have a list of things I should have done differently already.

And yes there was a second segment that I produced for Movement Museum, on dancing by yourself, but I am going redo it because it could be so much better. If it sounds good the second time around, you may hear about it here.

Finn

Hey Guys,

So some of you know that I’ve begun volunteering around CKUT, and have gotten involved with the Dance show: Movement Museum. In this context, I finally have an excuse to start playing around with audio editing and documentary creating – satisfying my curiousity re:podcasts and other fantastic constructions.

I am starting a series (only one is as of yet finished) called the Montreal Dancing Diaries which will be 5 minute segments on various kinds of dancing you can do around town. The first one, on Tango, will air on tomorrow’s Movement Museum show (14h-15h EST, 90.3 FM in the Montreal region, or online) but if you are curious to hear it otherwise, I’ve got it online:

http://www.archive.org/details/MontrealDancingDiaries1TheTango

I still have a lot of learning to do WRT editing and voice overs (uhg the effort of not sounding contrived!) but for a first go, I am pretty proud. Everything but my voice overs were recorded at the Tango lesson I attended (less than a hours worth of material), and so the music was not separable form the background noise or the interview, making transitions a bit of a challenge.

Anyway – I am glad it is done. Now to plot the next one!

Finn